designed by Wenten Rubuntja and Cedar Prest
Public Art / Araluen Art CollectionArrernte Country, 1988 Carbon copy, 2008 Comet, 1995 Grand Circle Yeperenye Sculpture I’ve Seen The Moon, 1995 Mt Gillen, 2008 The Language of Stockmen, 2019 The Split, 1984 Tread Softly, 2001 What are we doing here? – Malapropos, 2016
One of the many amazing public art work on display is the
Stained Glass Window
The painting by Wenten Rubuntja
Interpreted by Jenny Green
The magnificent stained glass windows in the Main Foyer are a major feature of the Araluen Arts Centre. The window was designed by local Aboriginal artist Wenten Rubuntja and is based on a painting called “Arrernte Country”, 1987, acrylic on canvas board, 121 x 90 cm.
This painting is about Mparntwe, relating traditional ancestral stories for the centre of Alice Springs. They belong to the Arrernte (Aranda) people and connect with other stories belonging to Aboriginal people all over the country.
The window is like a large map of Arrernte (Aranda) country around Alice Springs of which all Arrernte (Aranda) people are a part.
The stained glass window contains three separate, yet interrelated stories (see footnote for link to document). In the four In the four corners, on ceremonial grounds of feathers are depicted the totemic animals – arlure (gecko), arntetherrke (carpet snake) and iparipe (blind snake) and traditional weapons – irlpakerte (no. 7 boomerang), urrempere (fighting spear), alye (boomerang) and alkwerte (shield).
Made by Alice Inkamala, Julie Ebatarinja, Sally Rubuntja & Bernice Kennedy. Under the direction of Cedar Prest, Glass Artist.
Footnote & References
- Wenten Rubuntja’s Stained Glass Window, Araluen Arts Centre, https://araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au/file/314
Public Art / Araluen Art CollectionArrernte Country, 1988 Carbon copy, 2008 Comet, 1995 Grand Circle Yeperenye Sculpture I’ve Seen The Moon, 1995 Mt Gillen, 2008 The Language of Stockmen, 2019 The Split, 1984 Tread Softly, 2001 What are we doing here? – Malapropos, 2016
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